In conjunction with the Council of
Graduate Departments of Psychology,
APF awarded 15 annual scholarships for
graduate student research. The following
students are this year’s recipients:

• Amanda Venta of the University of
Houston was awarded the $5,000 Harry
and Miriam Levinson Scholarship to
fund her dissertation, “The Effect of
Oxytocin on Trust between Parents and
Adolescents.”

• Erin Moran of the University
of California, Berkeley, received the
$5,000 William and Dorothy Bevan
Scholarship for her work, “The Time
Course of Emotion in Schizophrenia.”

• Timothy Jarome of the University
of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, received
the Ruth G. and Joseph D. Matarazzo

Scholarship and received $3,000 to
support his project, “The Role of a
PKA/CaMKII-Protein Degradation-
GluR2 Pathway in Control of Memory
Updating.”

• Erin Ward-Ciesielski of the
University of Washington received
$3,000 made possible by the Friedman-Klarreich Family Foundation, to
conduct research on reducing suicide
risk in individuals not receiving mental
health treatment.

• Stephanie Groman of the Universityof California, Los Angeles, receivedthe $2,000Clarence J. RosecransScholarship to support work on herthesis, “Mechanistic Insight into theRelationship Between Cognitive Controland the Dopamine 02-like ReceptorSystem.”The following students received$1,000 scholarships, including the Peterand Malina James and Dr. Louis P.James Legacy Scholarship, to supporttheir research:

• Justin Karr, University of Victoria(Peter and Malina James and Dr. Louis P.

James Legacy Scholarship Recipient).

• John Medaglia, Pennsylvania State
University.

• Kelly Mc Williams, University of
California, Davis.

• Darya Zabelina, Northwestern
University.

• Lisham Ashrafioun, Bowling Green
State University.

• Daniel Kopala-Sibley, McGill
University.

• Emily Cogsdill, Harvard University.

• Shayna Henry, University of
California, Irvine.

• Lauren Richmond, Temple
University.

• Lauren Margulieux, Georgia
Institute of Technology.

For more information on the
APF/COGDOP Graduate Research
Scholarships, visit www.apa.org/apf/
funding/ cogdop.aspx. The next deadline
for applications is June 30.

Donor Spotlight:Drs. Donald Routh and Margaret Gonzalez

“I spent 30 years as a teacher and researcher in psychology and in retirementcontinue to publish on the history of the field. Giving to APF is a way of givingsomething back to the discipline that has meant so much to my life.”Donald Routh, PhD, professor emeritus at the University of Miami, pastpresident of APA Divs. 6 (Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative) and 12(Society of Clinical Psychology), and founding president of the InternationalSociety of Clinical Psychology, has dedicated his career to psychology.

Now, he and his wife, Margaret Gonzalez, PhD, are supporting the next
generation of psychologists to ensure that this field, which means so much to
them, will flourish for decades to come.